Louis Foster is a racing driver from United Kingdom who competes in IndyCar. Foster is a two-time champion (2022, 2024), with 29 wins and 59 podiums from 143 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 5,446 ranks Foster 663th of 38,983 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file.
| 2026-08-09 | Grand Prix of Portland | P15 | +13 |
| 2026-07-20 | Grand Prix of Nashville | P17 | โ13 |
| 2026-07-11 | NASCAR Truck Series at Lime Rock | P21 | โ97 |
| 2026-07-05 | Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio | P18 | โ32 |
| 2026-06-21 | Grand Prix of Road America | P14 | +19 |
| Rating won | Race | Series | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| +137 | Brands Hatch 2019 | British F4 | P1 |
| +137 | Donington 2020 | GB3 | P1 |
| +126 | Indy Nxt By Firestone Grand Prix At Mid Ohio 2023 | Indy NXT | P1 |
| +126 | Donington 2020 | GB3 | P1 |
| +120 | Knockhill 2019 | British F4 | P1 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | โธIndyCar | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P17 | โ24 | 5,446 | |
| โธNASCAR Truck | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P33 | โ97 | |||
| 2025 | โธIndyCar | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P26 | โ315 | 5,567 | |
| 2024 | โธIndy NXT | Andretti Global | 14 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 7 | 0 | P1 | +806 | 5,882 |
| 2023 | โธIndy NXT | Andretti Autosport | 12 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | P4 | +16 | 5,076 |
| 2022 | โธIndy Pro 2000 Championship | Exclusive Autosport | 18 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 0 | P1 | +300 | 5,060 |
| 2021 | โธEuroformula Open | CryptoTower Racing Team | 19 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | P2 | +410 | 4,760 |
| 2020 | โธGB3 | Double R Racing | 22 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | P4 | +223 | 4,719 |
| 2019 | โธBritish F4 | Double R Racing | 27 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 0 | P3 | +2,771 | 4,121 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ๐บ๐ธ Nolan SiegelFIA Gold | 5,388 | 65 | 33 | 32 | 51% |
| ๐ฌ๐ง Josh SkeltonFIA Silver | 3,804 | 45 | 26 | 19 | 58% |
| ๐ฆ๐บ Bart Horsten | 3,970 | 44 | 26 | 18 | 59% |
| ๐บ๐ธ Jacob AbelFIA Silver | 5,098 | 43 | 29 | 14 | 67% |
| ๐บ๐ธ Reece GoldFIA Silver | 4,308 | 43 | 32 | 11 | 74% |
| ๐ฉ๐ฐ Christian RasmussenFIA Gold | 5,308 | 42 | 17 | 25 | 40% |
| ๐ฐ๐พ Kyffin SimpsonFIA Gold | 5,917 | 41 | 19 | 22 | 46% |
| ๐ฒ๐พ Nazim AzmanFIA Silver | 3,602 | 41 | 24 | 17 | 59% |
| ๐ฌ๐ง Josh MasonFIA Silver | 5,051 | 36 | 32 | 4 | 89% |
| ๐บ๐ธ Yuven Sundaramoorthy | 4,112 | 36 | 32 | 4 | 89% |
| ๐ฏ๐ต Alex PalouFIA Platinum, 4ร champion | 7,659 | 30 | 2 | 28 | 7% |
| ๐ฒ๐ฝ Pato O'WardFIA Gold, 2ร champion | 7,024 | 30 | 4 | 26 | 13% |
| ๐ฉ๐ฐ Christian LundgaardFIA Gold | 6,853 | 30 | 5 | 25 | 17% |
| # | Driver | Series | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 653 | ๐ฉ๐ช Michael Ammermรผller | Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup | 5,457 |
| 654 | ๐ฆ๐บ Gary Brabham | International Formula 3000 | 5,456 |
| 655 | ๐ฏ๐ต Daisuke Ito | Super GT | 5,453 |
| 656 | ๐ฆ๐น Ferdinand Habsburg | WEC | 5,453 |
| 657 | ๐ฎ๐น Guido Daccรฒ | International Formula 3000 | 5,453 |
| 658 | ๐ธ๐ช Thomas Danielsson | International Formula 3000 | 5,449 |
| 659 | ๐ฏ๐ต Nirei Fukuzumi | Nรผrburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 5,448 |
| 660 | ๐ญ๐บ Zsolt Baumgartner | Formula 1 | 5,448 |
| 661 | ๐ธ๐ช Gustav Malja | Formula 2 | 5,447 |
| 662 | ๐ฎ๐น Claudio Langes | International Formula 3000 | 5,446 |
| 663 | ๐ฌ๐ง Louis Foster | IndyCar | 5,446 |
| 664 | ๐บ๐ธ Andy Michner | IndyCar | 5,445 |
| 665 | ๐บ๐ธ Conor Daly | IndyCar | 5,445 |
| 666 | ๐ซ๐ท Laurent Aรฏello | International Formula 3000 | 5,444 |
| 667 | ๐ฉ๐ช Luca Stolz | IMSA WeatherTech | 5,443 |
| 668 | ๐ฆ๐น Lucas Auer | Asian Le Mans Series | 5,443 |
| 669 | ๐ฆ๐น Oliver Tichy | FIA GT Championship | 5,443 |
| 670 | ๐บ๐ธ Cole Custer | NASCAR Cup Series | 5,442 |
| 671 | ๐ฒ๐ฝ Roberto Gonzalez | WEC | 5,442 |
| 672 | ๐ฏ๐ต Sena Sakaguchi | Super GT | 5,442 |
| 673 | ๐ฎ๐น Luigi Piotti | Formula 1 | 5,440 |
Louis Foster is an established professional in single-seater racing, rated 5,457. He competes full-time in IndyCar for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing and part-time in NASCAR Truck for Freedom Racing Enterprises. His primary racing background is in open-wheel championships across the United States and Europe. He holds FIA Silver grading, placing him among drivers developing toward the professional grades in endurance racing.[1]
Foster's career spans eight seasons from 2019 onward. He began in British F4 with Double R Racing, taking six wins and twelve podiums across 27 starts, then moved through GB3 and Euroformula Open, where he won three races in each. His breakthrough came in the North American ladder; he took the 2022 Indy Pro 2000 Championship with seven wins in eighteen starts, then stepped to Indy NXT in 2023 and won the series in 2024 with ten wins from 26 starts, the second title for Andretti Global. He entered IndyCar full-time in 2025 and has competed in 30 starts to date, predominantly on road and street courses; he made a single NASCAR Truck start in 2026 and currently sits 33rd in the points.[2]
His regular opponents in recent seasons include Nolan Siegel, an established professional and Gold-graded driver across multiple levels of American open-wheel racing, with whom Foster has finished closely matched, and Josh Skelton, a Silver-graded driver also rooted in British junior categories. At the IndyCar level, Foster has finished ahead of รlex Palou, a four-time series champion and elite professional, in two races, and has beaten Pato O'Ward, the 2018 Indy NXT champion and Gold-graded professional, four times. Double R Racing, the team that fielded him through his junior seasons, has won 47 races in the index and counted Mitch Evans, an elite professional, among its roster.